Recruiter sees grim future for London’s out-of-work bankers

If you are 35 years old, have only ever worked in the City and have lost your job, then the chief executive of Britain’s biggest listed recruitment company has a grim message for you on the prospect of a recovery in financial sector employment: “Those jobs have gone and they’re not coming back any time soon.” Hays chief executive Alistair Cox told the FT he had seen no indication green shoots have taken hold yet in the notoriously competitive City recruitment market.